Full House
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 885
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Well, sounds like you aren't far off from a decent strategy against these types of players. Yes, you generally need hands to beat them, since they can't be bluffed; you'll be winning chips at showdown mainly. The upside is when you do hit your hands, you can bet out for value, knowing these calling stations are going to pay you off handsomely more often than not.
This isn't always the case however. Pay close attention to see if anyone has the capacity to fold hands; if you see this happen on a few occasions you can be fairly certain they can lay down to your bluffs down the road.
As these are turbo tournaments, you should really focus on getting the M/CSI aspects of tournament poker memorized. M (or CSI as referred to in 'Kill Everyone') is a value that describes the relative size of your stack vs. how many orbits you can sustain before running out of chips entirely. For example, if the blinds are 100/200 (no antes), and your stack is 1500, you have an M of 5. What this is number is useful for is understanding when you are in dire straits and should be pushing instead of opening with a raise (push/fold mode as you described it). The magic number is typically 7 or 8 depending. If your M is under 3, you have no fold equity (i.e. no propensity to push anyone off their hands - you will be called), you're looking for a hand to just get it in with. There is obviously a lot more to it than this - understanding when you need to push or fold based on your M value is fine, but what hands do you push, with what M values, and from which positions do you push them...? and what hands do you call off your remaining stack with? If you want to know more about all this (I can't possibly hope to capitulate all this info to you in the space of one post) I'd suggest picking up 'Kill Everyone', who should be mailing me my commissions check sometime in the next week or so...
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